Immanent Transcendence

One of the first book-length
English-language treatments devoted to Francisco Suárez’s metaphysics

Long considered one of late scholasticism’s most important thinkers, Francisco Suárez has, paradoxically enough, often been treated only in relation to other medieval authors or as a transitional figure in the shift from medieval to early modern philosophy. As such, his thought has often been obscured and framed in terms of an alien paradigm. This book seeks to correct such approaches and examines Suárez's metaphysical thinking as it stands on its own. Suárez is shown to be much more in line with his medieval predecessors who developed their accounts of being to express the theological commitments they had made. Central to Suárez’s account is a fundamental existential orientation, one that many interpreters have overlooked in favour of an understanding of being as reduced to essence or to the thinkable.

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"Immanent Transcendence" was written by Victor Salas.

Victor M. Salas is an associate professor of Philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary.

Yes, "Immanent Transcendence" is part of the "Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1" series. It's book 62 in the series.

In association with The De Wulf-Mansion Centre.

About the Series

The series' focus lies primarily on the continuity and thematic transitions between ancient, medieval and renaissance thought, but also includes volumes on specific topics related to any of those periods. ‘Philosophy' is understood broadly to include metaphysics, ethics, natural philosophy, epistemology and philosophy of mind, and philosophical theology. Since the series is particularly devoted to making available Latin and Greek source texts, we welcome critical text editions as well as contributions that are based on philological scrutiny of those texts, without losing sight of their philosophical importance.

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Readership

Researchers and graduate students in ancient, medieval and renaissance philosophy, in classics and in history.

Editorial Coordinator

Russell Friedman, KU Leuven, Belgium

Editorial Board

Pieter Beullens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Lisa Devriese, KU Leuven, Belgium
Pieter d'Hoine, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jan Opsomer, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jenny Pelletier, KU Leuven, Belgium
Andrea Robiglio, KU Leuven, Belgium
Carlos Steel, KU Leuven, Belgium
Gerd Van Riel, KU Leuven, Belgium

Advisory Board

Brad Inwood, Yale Universityo, USA
Jill Kraye, The Warburg Institute, London, United Kingdom
John Marenbon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lodi Nauta, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Timothy Noone (†) , The Catholic University of America, USA
Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Martin Pickavé, University of Toronto, Canada,
Pasquale Porro, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Geert Roskam, KU Leuven, Belgium

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Preface

Acknowledgments
Note on Textual Sources

Introduction

1. The Life and Work of Francisco Suárez

2. The Theological Context and Purpose of the Suárezian Metaphysics

3. Interpretive Trends

4. The Thesis and Structure of the Present Work

Chapter One: Metaphysics and Its Object

1. Being in Excess

2. Being in Restriction

2.1 Divine Science

2.2 Finite Being

3. Being as Transcendent

4. Conclusion

Chapter Two: Being and Existence

1. Formal and Objective Concepts

2. The Unity of the Concept of Being

3. Existence and Quiddity

4. Being as a Participle and as a Noun

5. Immanence

6. Conclusion

Chapter Three: The Transcendentality of Being

1. The Transcendental Explication of Being

1.1 Ratio Dubitandi: The Challenge to Transcendental Science

1.2 Suárez’s Transcendental Solution

2. Transcendentality and Mentalism?

2.1 The Accusation of Mentalism

2.2 The Intrinsic Entitative Character of the Transcendentals

2.2.1 Transcendental Unity

2.2.2 Transcendental Truth

2.2.3 Transcendental Goodness

3. Transcendentality and the Evisceration of Existence?

3.1 Transcendental Enumeration

3.2 Transcendental Reduction: Res

3.3 Transcendental Reduction: Aliquid

3.4 The Second Transcendental Perspective (Disjunctive Transcendentals)

4. Conclusion

Chapter Four: Being and Possibility

1. The Imitation Model

2. Duns Scotus: Esse intelligibile and Possibility

3. Suárez on the Divine Cognition of the Possibles

4. Suárez on the Entitative Status of the Possibles

4.1 The “Essentialism” of Essences?

4.2 Potential Being (i.e., Objective Potency)

4.3 Futuribilia

5. Suárez on the Modal Character of Possibility

6. Conclusion

Chapter Five: Being and Analogy

1. Equivocity

2. Univocity and the Unity of Being

3. Analogy

3.1 Proper Proportionality

3.2 Attribution

4. An Unequal, Inner Order

4.1 Inner Difference

4.2 Inner Unity

5. Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index Nominum
Index Rerum

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for "Immanent Transcendence" is 10.11116/9789461664877.